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Adjective returning has 2 senses
- returning, reverting - tending to return to an earlier state
Antonym: progressive (indirect, via regressive)
- returning, reversive - tending to be turned back
Antonym: forward (indirect, via backward)
Verb return has 16 senses
- return, go back, get back, come back - come back to place where one has been before, or return to a previous activity
--1 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentence:
The children return to the playground
- render, return - give back; "render money"
--2 is one way to give
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back - go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"
--3 is one way to change by reversal, turn, reverse
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- hark back, return, come back, recall - go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his"
--4 is one way to denote, refer
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
- return, take back, bring back - bring back to the point of departure
--5 is one way to bring, convey, take
Sample sentence:
They return the parcel to their parents
- return - return in kind; "return a compliment"; "return her love"
--6 is one way to reciprocate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- return - make a return; "return a kickback"
--7 is one way to transport, carry
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- retort, come back, repay, return, riposte, rejoin - answer back
--8 is one way to answer, reply, respond
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- come back, return - be restored; "Her old vigor returned"
--9 is one way to reappear, re-emerge
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- refund, return, repay, give back - pay back; "Please refund me my money"
--10 is one way to pay
Sample sentences:
They return the money to them
They return them the money
- render, deliver, return - pass down; "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment"
--11 is one way to communicate, pass on, pass, put across
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- reelect, return - elect again
--12 is one way to elect
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- fall, return, pass, devolve - be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
--13 is one way to change hands
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody
- return - return to a previous position; in mathematics; "The point returned to the interior of the figure"
--14 is one way to return, go back, get back, come back
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- render, yield, return, give, generate - give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family"
--15 is one way to produce, make, create
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- return - submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority; "submit a bill to a legislative body"
--16 is one way to submit, subject
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
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